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Israeli company

Mercury Interactive Corporation was an Israeli company acquired by the HP Software Division. Mercury offered software for application management, application delivery, change and configuration management, service-oriented architecture, change request, quality assurance, and IT governance.2 It ceased to exist in 2006.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Mercury Interactive Corporation was an Israeli company acquired by the HP Software Division. Mercury offered software for application management, application delivery, change and configuration management, service-oriented architecture, change request, quality assurance, and IT governance.2

The story

In 1989, Zvi Schpizer, Ilan Kinriech and Arye Finegold founded Mercury Interactive Corporation. The company was based in California and had offices located around the world. It also had a large R&D facility in Yehud, Israel.

On 25 July 2006, Hewlett-Packard announced it would pay approximately $4.5 billion to acquire Mercury Interactive. In November, Mercury Interactive formally became part of HP. The Mercury Interactive products are now sold by HP Software Division.

Mercury Interactive legacy products were integrated and sold as part of the HP IT Management Software portfolio from the HP Software Division.

Most of the Mercury Interactive software assets were apportioned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) when HP split into two companies. In September 2017, HPE completed the sale of most of its software assets, including the legacy Mercury Interactive products to UK-based Micro Focus.

In 2023, Canadian software company OpenText acquired Micro Focus, including Mercury Interactive products.

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Products and brands

HP ALM software: Application lifecycle management and testing toolset

HP LoadRunner software: Integrated software performance testing tools

HP QuickTest Professional software: Automated software testing

HP Quality Center software (formerly HP TestDirector for Quality Center software): Quality management software for applications

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HP SiteScope software: Agentless monitoring software

HP Universal CMDB software: Configuration management database

HP Project and Portfolio Management software Project Management module: zero-client software for scheduling and managing software

HP Business Process Testing software: Automated and manual testing software for test design, test creation, test maintenance, test execution, and test data management

HP Diagnostics software: Diagnostic software for applications

HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping software: Automated application and IT infrastructure mapping software

HP Functional Testing software: Automated functional and regression testing software

HP Real User Monitor software: Software that provides real-time visibility into application performance and availability from the user perspective

HP Performance Center: Application performance testing management solutions

HP Business Availability Center: Business service management solutions

HP Mobile Center: mobile application testing solution

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Acquisitions

From 2000 until its HP acquisition in 2006, Mercury purchased several software companies:

Conduct Software Technologies, Inc., acquired by Mercury Interactive in a share-swap deal worth about $50M, was a privately held software company founded in 1996 by Sharon Azulai, David Barzilai, and Ran Levy. The company provided network topology visualization products, to pinpoint bottlenecks and isolate the location of network problems both across the network and across the system infrastructure. Its main product was SiteRunner, which used multi-agent technology to pinpoint bottlenecks. As part of Mercury, Conduct alumni started a new project, nicknamed Falcon and later called Prism, that switched focus to monitoring web server traffic.

Freshwater Software was a software vendor of a web server monitoring and administration tool called SiteScope. Mercury Interactive acquired Freshwater Software in 2001. The product is now called HP SiteScope software.

Performant Inc. was a software vendor of J2EE diagnostic tools. Mercury Interactive acquired Performant in 2003 for $22.5M.

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Kintana Inc. was a software vendor of IT governance products. Mercury Interactive acquired Kintana in June 2003 for $225M. Kintana products are now called HP Project and Portfolio Management software.

Appilog was a software vendor of auto-discovery and application mapping software. Appilog products mapped the relationships among applications and their underlying infrastructure. Mercury Interactive acquired Appilog for $49M in 2004. Appilog products are now part of HP Universal CMDB software, an HP Business Service Management offering.

BeatBox Technologies (formerly named "ClickCadence LLC") was a software vendor of real user behavior tracking products. Mercury Interactive acquired BeatBox in 2005 for approximately $14 million in cash, "to extend the real user monitoring capabilities of its BTO software and to enhance its performance lifecycle offerings.". BeatBox was incorporated into Mercury's Real User Monitor (RUM) product, which is now part of HP Business Availability Center.

Systinet (formerly named IdooX) was a software vendor of registry and enablement products for standard service-oriented architecture (SOA). Mercury Interactive acquired Systinet in 2006 for $105M. Systinet products are now called HP SOA Systinet software.

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Timeline

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  2. 1989Founded Founded1

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